PhD in Management (Future)

Overview

The PhD program in Management at UMLAC explores how organizations create sustainable value that fulfills the interests of the organization through producing positive impacts for society and the environment.

Each of these components is covered in the coursework and they represent the scope of our programmatic research on consciousness-based sustainability in management.

The evolution of individual and collective consciousness cultivates the learning capabilities of systems thinking, collaborative relationships, and creative visioning to create sustainable value.

This evolving consciousness expresses itself in new management practices and forms of organization that enable organizations to innovatively address social and environmental needs. Evolving consciousness also attends to and reports on a holistic range of performance outcomes, encompassing economic, social, and environmental results.

In the PhD program at UMLAC, sustainable management is studied in the light of the Science and Technology of Consciousness. This program in ConsciousnessBased℠ Management for Sustainability provides understanding and experience of the total intelligence of Nature, which automatically manages the infinitely complex and evolving universe without strain and without mistakes. Students in this program practice technologies for personal growth toward better health, clearer thinking, greater creativity, moral development, and wisdom.

Admission Requirements

Practice of the Transcendental Meditation® Technique

MBA or equivalent business degree

GMAT or GRE

A substantial research paper as evidence of academic writing. The paper may have been submitted for required course assignments or thesis in the student’s master’s degree program. This should be a paper written by the student alone, not a project by a team of students. Such writing samples may be accepted as substitutes for scores on GMAT or GRE.

TOEFL score of at least 575 (paper-based) or 90 (Internet-based), or IELTS overall band score of 6.5 is required.

Degree Requirements

To graduate with a PhD in Management, students must successfully complete all general requirements for the doctoral degree. As part of these requirements, students must successfully complete the following degree requirements.

MGT 679 Research Seminar in Sustainable Management (2 credits); may be repeated for credit

Research Methods (24 credits, 4-5 courses; a maximum of one course may be waived by prior study; additional courses may be required by the dissertation adviser as appropriate to the student’s research)

MGT 5240 Data Analysis for Managers (4 credits)

MGT 628 Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis (4 credits)

MGT 631 Multiple Regression Analysis (4 credits)

MGT 635 Quantitative Research Design (4 credits)

MGT 636 Qualitative Research Methods (4 credits)

Professional Development (4 credits)

MGT 692 Seminar in Writing (2 credits)

FOR 598 Faculty Training Course (2 credits)

Additional Courses

A student’s faculty advisory committee may require additional course work as required for the student’s dissertation research.

MGT 690 Preparation for Qualifying Examination (4 credits — may be repeated for credit until the qualifying examination is completed)

MGT 700 Preparing the Dissertation Proposal (4 credits — may be repeated for credit until dissertation proposal is accepted)

MGT 701 Dissertation Research (2.5 credits per block — may be repeated for credit until dissertation is completed)

When the qualifying examination is successfully completed, the student is advanced to PhD Candidate status. When the dissertation proposal is accepted by the faculty, the student is advanced to PhD Researcher status. The amount of time required to complete the dissertation varies according to the research project. A public oral presentation and defense of the dissertation is required, as is acceptance of the dissertation by the dissertation committee, the Graduate School Director, and the Library Director.

(See the dissertation manual.)

The above information is subject to change at any time. Students already enrolled at the University should contact the graduation director for their degree requirements. The content of this page was reviewed in March 2014.

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The specific facts and theories about business will change over time, but several personal qualities that develop through Consciousness-BasedSM management will form the basis for our students’ success throughout their careers.

Students should develop the qualities associated with enlightenment: inner peace, alertness, creative intelligence, spiritual experience, balance of heart and mind, and ethical awareness and behavior. The practice of the Transcendental Meditation program by all students, faculty and staff at UMLAC is the foundation for this development.

Our students should develop effective research skills (information literacy), effective thinking and reasoning, including the use of logic and evidence, and effective analytic problem solving using the knowledge of business functions (marketing, accounting, finance, operations, management). The scholarship of our faculty and the clarity of mind of our students promote this objective.

Our students should develop synthetic thinking: clarity and precision in problem formulation and creativity in identifying options for decision. A clear, settled mind, functioning from the lively wakefulness of fully developed consciousness, is the best preparation for creativity in business.

Our students should develop effective presentation skills, both written and oral. A clear mind and an ability to work without taking on stress and strain helps the student achieve this objective.

Our students should develop professional standards of behavior and ethics in business and an orientation toward sustainability and world citizenship. This broad awareness is the natural result of relieving one’s mind and body of stress and strain through the practice of the Transcendental Meditation program.

Our students should develop clarity about their personal strengths and career goals. This is one of the most profound effects of Consciousness-Based management. With a clear mind and deep, settled awareness, our students can better feel what works for them and what does not.

A Unique Perspective

The unique perspective on business at UMLAC is perhaps best illustrated by comparing some “conventional principles” of business, which kept life rooted in ignorance in ages past, with “consciousnessbased” principles that are emerging in an age where the current knowledge-based paradigm of business would find its fulfillment in Consciousness-Based Management.

The goal of UMLAC is: To promote for all the people of the Caribbean and Latin America Consciousness
Based universities, with the goal of awakening in every student the full potential of creativity, intelligence, and
happiness for an increasingly problem-free, progressive and fulfilling life that brings all good to oneself, one’s
surroundings, and to society as a whole.

In alignment with its Vision, UMLAC plans to continue adding programs and their supervisory Departments.
In addition to this Program, below you will find a series of programs which are scheduled to start in the near future.